Note: A common misconception: Most of Cohen's USSR-born associates are Russian speakers of pro-Russian view. Emigrated in 70-80s when Ukraine was a part of the USSR. Referring to them as “Ukrainians” is misleading. Ukraine is under a hybrid war attack by Russia.

1. Cohen partnered with USSR-born “taxi kings” with a history of felony, fraud, tax evasion and some known for ties with the Kremlin circles.

1.1.1. Former partner Garber had ties to the Russian government officials through a member of Russian parliament, Vladimir Slutsker.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Gar…

1.1.3. Igor Bakunenko and his partner Alexander Varshavsky owned multiple companies that shared the address with Moscow Taxi and were involved in a big corruption scandal with wholesale of Mercedes and Fords to the state-run organization. occrp.org/en/investigati…

1.1.4. Varshavsky was a business associate of Vladimir Putin's first cousin, Igor Putin. Varhshavsky and Igor Putin were on the Board of Directors of Termosteps-MTL, a part of VBM-Group holding.compromat.ru/page_29221.htm

2.2. Vaygensberg invested in another casino boat in Tampa with Tatiana and Michael (Mikhail) Varzar. Tatiana later ran a catering business in Trump Grande in Florida.linkedin.com/pulse/think-yo…

2.3. Mikhail Varzar previously served a term for participating in gasoline racketeering scheme carried on by Russian and Italian organized crime groups. justice.gov/archive/opa/pr…

2.4. In 1992, Mikhail Varzar was arrested as an accomplice in “an elaborate scheme, referred to as a "daisy chain," in which gasoline was purportedly sold between a number of wholesale distributors before reaching the retail level.law.justia.com/cases/federal/…

2.5. As part of the scheme, the Colombo, Gambino, Luchese and Genovese crime families collected their "tribute" payment of at least a one and one-half cents per gallon from the proceeds of these transactions. justice.gov/archive/opa/pr…

2.6. Another Russian OC group member, David Bogatin, convicted in a gasoline tax-fraud case, bought five Trump Tower apartments for $6mn in 1984. nytimes.com/1992/05/14/nyr…

2.8. State prosecutors concluded that Bogatin purchased them “to launder money, to shelter and hide assets: and used them on weekend “for parties.”books.google.com/books?id=ZQ_9C…

2.9. David Bogatin’s brother, Jacob Bogatin, was laundering money through Trump Tower condos via his brother. Jacob Bogatin has a string of mob-related convictions including financial fraud and tax evasion.villagevoice.com/1998/05/26/the…

2.10. In 1993, Jacob Bogatin, along with Mogilevich, was indicted by the US government on 45 counts for $150 million in stock fraud. He was the president and CEO of YBM Magnex International, Mogilevich’s main business in the US. phillyvoice.com/reputed-philly…

2.11. In May 1998, FBI, IRS, INS, and Customs did a joint raid of YBM’s offices in Newton. Mogilevich’s main activity in the U.S. appears to be money laundering, says a classified FBI report.villagevoice.com/1998/05/26/the…

💥 3. In 1999, Cohen was involved in a money-laundering scheme with Moscow-based Russian organized crime group members with connections to the Kremlin. A condominium in Trump Palace in Florida was used.

3.1. A pro Russian hockey player, a Moscow-based OCG leader with ties to the oligarchs close to Putin and to Russian OCG participated in the scheme. english.gordonua.com/news/exclusive…

3.2. OCG leader was tied to Vyacheslav Ivankov, a Russian OCG leader considered a major threat to the US safety by FBI.

3.3. Ivankov had ties to Trump Organization. In 1995, FBI found Ivankov in Trump Tower, and later the Taj Mahal casino. HIS phone book contained a working number for the Trump Organization’s Trump Tower residence and a Trump Organization fax machine.medium.com/@ZarinaZabrisk…

3.4. Ivankov was connected to Semyon Mogelivich, identified by the Justice Department as the head of a transnational criminal organization that posed a threat to U.S. national security.

4.4. Novinsky and Topolov had joint business since at least 2005. In 2005, Topolov/Kiyv-Donbas’s Merses Plus and Fintechnology, controlled by Cyprus offshore Frodo Commercial Limited, owned by Novinsky, founded a joint company, Ukrperiklaz.

💥5. In 2008, Cohen helped Trump manage Affliction Entertainment, mixed martial arts entertainment company. It starred Putin-supported Russian fighter Fedor Emelianenko. A reality television show was to be filmed in Russia. The business failed in 2009.

💥In 2013, Cohen attended a meeting between Trump and Russian oligarchs in Las Vegas. One of them is a close ally of Putin and invested $20 million in Trump’s Miss Universe competition in Moscow in 2013 and got awarded by Putin at the same time.

💥7. In 2014, Cohen’s brother Bryan became a chief administrative officer at Douglas Elliman. The founders brought Trump to Moscow in 1996 and arranged discussions between Trump Organization and the Moscow authoritieselliman.com/new-developmen…

7.1. In Nov1996, Howard Lorber and Ben LeBow brought Trump to Moscow and arranged discussions about a joint venture between their Liggett-Ducat tobacco factory, Trump Organization and the city of Moscow with the Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov’s office.

7.2. Howard Lorber is the founder/executive of Vector, Douglas Elliman and Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. Vector Group is the parent company of Douglas Elliman. Lorber’s and LeBow’s real estate company Douglas Elliman currently has many listings in Trump Tower

7.3. In April 2016, Trump thanked Lorber and LeBow in his speech after winning the Republican primary, calling them “our great businessmen of the world.”

8.1. Squire Patton Boggs lobbied for Gazprombank in 2014, after the US imposed sanctions. It received about $450,000 for the work in the nine months through March 2015. publicintegrity.org/2014/09/02/154…

9.3. According to Artemenko’s interview to Ukrainian strana.ru, he had known Cohen and Sater for a long time. He “got acquainted with Sater through mutual friends. He knew Cohen because “he founded a family “business on ethanol” in Ukraine.”

9.4. When asked why he was chosen as the person to tell about this initiative in Washington, Artemenko answered: “Because I have long known these people with close ties to Trump. …with Cohen and Sater, I began to discuss it at the primaries stage, when no one believed that...

...Trump would even become a candidate, not to mention the presidency… Already at that time, I began to establish channels of communication with Donald Trump’s team.”

And here is about Page. Alfa connection is important and often overlooked. Petr Aven of Alfa confirmed that the organization he sponsors paid for Page's visit to Russia in summer 2016. medium.com/mosaic2/who-is…

Page was one of the few American experts who called for understanding of the annexion of Crimea. His lecture was covered in Katehon, funded by Russian right-wing nationalist Konstantin Malofeev, Russian Orthodox Church and Patriarch Kirill, a former KGB officer.

#Cohen postpones testifying due to alleged threats. Thread on elimination witness. It is called "bespredel" and is practiced in the 90s and until now in Russia. Thread. cnbc.com/2019/01/23/mic…

1. Previously, last week, Cohen was photographed/videorecorded coming home after "a shoulder surgery, the same day BuzzFeed suggested Trump told Cohen to lie to Congress about a Trump Tower in Moscow" independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

2. There is a long-standing Russian tradition of eliminating witnesses and people who know too much. Below is an incomplete list of murders and sudden deaths of people relevant to the elections 2016:

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2015, people. Alerts were sent by our ally intel services in 2015!! “GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious “interactions” between figures connected to Trump & known or suspected Russian agents.” gu.com/p/69exm/stw

"The European countries that passed on electronic intelligence – known as sigint – included Germany, Estonia and Poland. Australia, a member of the “Five Eyes” spying alliance that also includes the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand, also relayed material, one source said."

"They [the European agencies] were saying: ‘There are contacts going on between people close to Mr Trump and people we believe are Russian intelligence agents. You should be wary of this.’

2. Three years later in 1984, David #Bogatin bought an apartment in #TrumpTower on Fifth Avenue, paying $6 million to buy five luxury condos. #Trump personally attended the closing, along with #Bogatin.